You don't need to worship Krishna to love the Mahabharata. Read it as you would read the Jataka Tales —as a collection of moral dilemmas.
Mahabharata holds a significant place in Sri Lankan culture, primarily through popular Sinhala-dubbed television adaptations and comprehensive literary translations. While the epic is of Indian origin, it is deeply integrated into the local consciousness, often being compared with Sri Lanka's own historical chronicles like the Television Adaptations (Sinhala Dubbed) mahabharata sinhala